Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?

I had a dream about you last night... You replaced all the people in your life with kittens. It felt more like a prediction of the future.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.